{"id":3310,"date":"2016-12-25T00:21:13","date_gmt":"2016-12-25T00:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/?p=3310"},"modified":"2016-12-25T00:26:31","modified_gmt":"2016-12-25T00:26:31","slug":"top-celebrities-luton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/2016\/12\/25\/top-celebrities-luton\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Celebrities from Luton"},"content":{"rendered":"

Luton has many famous celebrities who have been either born in Luton or have been brought up in Luton. This article list our top 15 celebrities from actors, actresses, comedians, film directors, composers and more.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>1. Colin Salmon
\n<\/strong>Colin Salmon is an English actor best known for playing Charles Robinson in three James Bond films. He was born in Bethnal Green, London, England, the son of Sylvia Ivy Brudenell Salmon, a nurse. He grew up in Luton and attended Ramridge Primary School and Ashcroft High School.<\/p>\n

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2. Chris Gauthier\"\"<\/a>
\n<\/strong>Christopher Gauthier was born in Luton, Bedfordshire, England but now lives in Vancouver, Canada. He is an actor and writer, known for Watchmen (2009), Insomnia (2002) and Eureka (2006). Chris had a recurring role on the SyFy Channel series Eureka, as Caf\u00e9 Diem owner Vincent.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a><\/strong>3. Sean Gallagher<\/strong>
\nSean Gallagher was born in Luton, Bedfordshire, England as Sean Campbell Gallagher. He is an actor, known for Coronation Street (1960), Jock: A True Tale of Friendship (1994) and Making a Killing (2002). He worked at Stanley’s Casino in Luton as a croupier in order to assist with drama school tuition.<\/p>\n

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4. Neil Jackson\"\"<\/a>
\n<\/strong>Neil Jackson is an English actor and writer who has appeared in several television series and films, but is probably best known for his role as Marcus in Blade. He was born in Luton and was introduced to acting when studying drama at GCSE level in Harlington Upper School.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>5. Lee Ross<\/strong>
\nRichard Lee Ross is an English professional actor probably best known for his roles as nice guy Kenny Philips in the classic CITV drama Press Gang and more recently Owen Turner in EastEnders. He was born in Luton and prior to his first acting role, he attended Stockwood High School in Luton.<\/p>\n

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6. John Badham\"\"<\/a>
\n<\/strong>John Macdonald Badham is an English born American film director, best known for the films Saturday Night Fever, Blue Thunder, War Games, Short Circuit, Stakeout and Bird on a Wire. He was born in Luton, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom, the son of U.S. Army General Henry Lee Badham, Jr.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>7. Paul Young
\n<\/strong>Paul Antony Young is an English singer, songwriter and musician. Formerly the frontman of the short-lived bands Kat Kool & the Kool Cats, Streetband and Q-Tips. He was born in Luton, Bedfordshire, England and he played football for the Vauxhall Motors factory in Luton.<\/p>\n

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8. David Arnold\"\"<\/a><\/strong>
\nDavid G. Arnold born in Luton, is a British film composer best known for scoring five James Bond films, Stargate (1994), Independence Day (1996), Godzilla (1998) and the television series Little Britain and Sherlock. While attending the Sixth Form College in Luton, Arnold became friends with director Danny Cannon.<\/p>\n

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9. Tom Chadbon\"\"<\/a>
\n<\/strong>Tom Chadbon born in Luton is an English actor, who has spent the larger part of his career appearing on British television. While principally a character actor, he has occasionally had leading or recurring roles including Out of the Unknown, The Stone Tape, Softly Softly and many more.<\/p>\n

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10. Nadiya Hussain\"\"<\/a>
\n<\/strong>Nadiya Jamir Hussain is a British baker, columnist, author and television presenter. She rose to fame after winning the sixth series of BBC’s The Great British Bake Off in 2015. Hussain was born to a British Bangladeshi family in Luton. She is a second-generation Bangladeshi Briton born and raised in Luton, where she attended Challney High School and Luton Sixth Form College.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>11. Emily Atack<\/strong>
\nEmily Jane Atack born in Luton is an English actress, best known for her role as Charlotte Hinchcliffe in the award winning E4 series The Inbetweeners. She is a Luton Town FC fan as she mentioned on an appearance on Soccer AM.<\/p>\n

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12. Monty Panesar\"\"<\/a>
\n<\/strong>Mudhsuden Singh Panesar, known as Monty Panesar is an English international cricketer who currently plays for Northamptonshire. Born in Luton Panesar was educated at St. Matthew’s Infant and Junior Schools and Stopsley High School, Luton. For Sixth Form, he studied at Bedford Modern School. He also has a degree in computer science from Loughborough University.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>13. Joanna Dunham
\n<\/strong>Joanna Elizabeth Dunham born in Luton was an English actress, best noted for her work on stage and television. She also appeared in several major films including The breaking point, Dangerous afternoon, The greatest story ever told and more.<\/p>\n

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14. Richard Mayes \"\"<\/a>
\n<\/strong>Derek Leonard Richard Mayes born in Luton was an English stage and television actor. He appeared in many roles on stage and small screen, including roles in Doctor Who and as Jebediah Dingle in Emmerdale.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>15. Simon Evans
\n<\/strong>Simon Evans is an English comedian, born in Luton and now living in Hove. Evans attended Verulam School in St Albans and then studied law at Southampton University, graduating in 1986.<\/p>\n

There are many more famous people from Luton who we are proud of but could not list in this article.<\/p>\n

We hope young people growing up from Luton can find some inspiration and role model to follow and one day they too may be recognised by the people of Luton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Luton has many famous celebrities who have been either born in Luton or have been brought up in Luton. This article list our top 15 celebrities from actors, actresses, comedians, film directors, composers and more. 1. Colin Salmon Colin Salmon is an English actor best known for playing Charles Robinson in three James Bond films. He was born in Bethnal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10220698900476085_349663338397715":"","twitter_1370559253_1370559253":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[61,277,302,301,308,311,313,306,305,316,312,310,304,5,307,314,303,315,309],"class_list":["post-3310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-careers","tag-article","tag-articles","tag-chris-gauthier","tag-colin-salmon","tag-david-arnold","tag-emily-atack","tag-joanna-dunham","tag-john-badham","tag-lee-ross","tag-luton-celebrities","tag-monty-panesar","tag-nadiya-hussain","tag-neil-jackson","tag-news","tag-paul-young","tag-richard-mayes","tag-sean-gallagher","tag-simon-evans","tag-tom-chadbon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3310"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3347,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3310\/revisions\/3347"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}